Drapery hooks



s. PERLMUTTER DRAPERY HOOKS Sept. 6, 1955 Filed May 18, 1951 United States Patent DRAPERY HOOKS Samuel Perlmutter, Newton, Mass.

Application May 18, 1951, Serial No. 227,003

3 Claims. (Cl. 24' 84) The present invention relates to drapery hooks and in particular to the general type of hook described in my application, Serial No. 122,427, filed October 20, 1949, issued as United States Letters Patent No. 2,553,272, May 15, 1951.

The drapery hook of the type therein described and also of the hook of the present invention is used quite generally for draperies which have a turned over marginal hem at the back of the drapery face, which hem is secured by a series of up and down lines of stitching which sometimes are used additionally to form pleats in the material.

The hook of the present invention is secured at these up and down hems with part of the hook positioned between the turned-over margin and the face material and the hook element of the hook extending out in back of the margin by means of which it is suspended to the traverse rod or equivalent cross support or whatever may be used to support the whole drapery.

In such an arrangement, sometimes because of the width of the marginal material or because of the construction of the drapery itself, various lengths of hooks may be required and further it may be desired to have the hook portion of the hook at a different relative position with respect to the portion of the support which lies between the margin and the face material.

The present invention provides a hook in which the hook portion and the support may be adjusted relative to one another so that the hook portion is either low or high with respect to the support which is forced between the margin and the face material of the drapery.

A further advantage of the present invention is that the hook may be constructed of two individual elements and that different lengths of hook sections may be provided for use with the same or different lengths of the supporting elements.

Another distinct advantage in the present invention is that the hook section is not rigidly attached to the support but is pivotally mounted in a longitudinal axis with respect thereto and will therefore turn so that when the hook is put on the drapery the hook section may swing to the right or left to adjust itself for the desired position of hanging thereby permitting the drapery to lie smoothly in line with respect to the supporting rod.

A further advantage in the present invention is the economical cost of construction and the fact that fewer different sizes of hooks are necessary to satisfy varying conditions for all types of hooks.

Without further describing the merits and advantages of the present invention, the invention will be described in connection with the embodiment set forth in the specification below when taken in connection with the drawings illustrating the same, in which:

Figure 1 shows a front elevation of the hook of the present invention.

Figure 2 shows a side elevation of the hook shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 shows a sectiontaken on the line 33 of Figure 1, and,

Figure 4 shows a modification of the top section of the embodiment of Figure l, and

Figure 5 shows a modification of a detail shown in Figure 1.

The hook shown in the drawings may be formed of two separable elements, the hook and shank piece 1 and the support 2. The hook and shank element 1 is formed with a shank 3, the lower end of which is bent into a curve or eye 4. The upper end of the shank 3 is formed into the hooked section 5, which as indicated in the drawings may comprise a downwardly opening V-shaped bend 6 and an inwardly projecting end piece 7. The shank portion 3 may be provided with a series of transverse slots 8-8 which are engaged by the loop section 9 of the support 2. The hook and shank piece 1 may have all of its elements lying substantially in a single plane. The support section 2 may also be formed of a single wire element comprising two stems, 1t} and 11 which are substantially parallel to each other except that it is preferable to have the upper ends touching on their adjacent facings or edgings or substantially touching as shown in Figure 1. The top of the stems 10 and 11 may have outwardly bent loops or eyes, 12 and 13 respectively which lie in the same plane as the stems 10 and 11. The stems 10 and 11 may be slightly separated at their lower ends but should be spaced apart less than the diameter of the shank 3.

The stems 10 and 11 at their lower ends are provided With a close U-shaped bend as shown at 14 and 15, with the reverse upwardly extending portions 16 and 17 forming the loop 9, which is an integral element. The loop 9 need not be closed at the lower end and in fact the sections 10 and 16 of the wire may lie in the same plane as also the sections 11 and 17. The distance between the bends 14 and 15 should be slightly less than the thickness of the wire 3 and the sections 16 and 17 as indicated in Figure 2 will be inclined inwardly towards the stems 1t) and 11. The looped end 4 of the shank and hook element 1 is sufficiently large to act as a handle to hold and grip the shank and hook. A further feature of the end 4 is that it acts as a lock to prevent the shank and hook section 1 from being readily pulled upward through the support section 2.

While it is preferable to have the hook section of the base 1 lie in the same plane with the hook section 4, they may be however at any other plane, even at right angles one to the other or substantially so, in which case in order to pull the section 1 through the supporting piece 2, the hook section of the element 1 will have to be rotated into the plane substantially coincidental with that of the plane of the stem pieces 10 and 11.

The up and down hem of the drapery is intended to lie between the stems 10 and 11 with the stems 1t) and 11 on the inner face of the marginal piece similarly as described in connection with my Patent No. 2,512,376 issued June 20, 1950.

The shank 3 will lie on the outer face of the margin material over the seam and for the most part the eye element 4 will face inward against the back of the drapery face. The hook section 5 will extend outwardly from the marginal face of the drapery, either straight back or at an angle depending upon its self adjustment since the shank 3 may be pivoted. The person who hangs the drapery will lock the stem in the proper cross groove so that the hook section 5 will be positioned at the proper level from the top turned ends 12 and 13 which as a rule will extend upward to the fold between the drapery and its margin. However this is not necessarily true, since if the margin extends downward to the bends 14 and 15, the drapery will be securely supported particularly because of the pressure exerted in holding the marginal material between the elements 10 and 11 on the inside of the margin and the shank 3 on the outside of the margin. The hook will be more securely locked and held together when in place on the drapery since under those conditions the stem 3 which is normally pressed into tangential relation or substantially such a position as indicated in Figure 3, will be forced backwards by the marginal material and under such a condition the loop 9 will be strained so that it will exert a stress in keeping the stem 3 against the seam on each side of which the stems 10 and 11 will rest. If after the drapery is hung it is found that the hook should have been much higher or lower, this may be accomplished by pulling the whole hook assembly out resetting it in its new position and then putting it back again on the drapery.

The modification shown in Figure 4 applies only to the end designs or pieces corresponding to the stems 1t) and 11. In this case the stems 10' and 11 may be formed with side ways offset prongs 20 and 21 which may lie in the same plane as the stems 10' and 11 and which if desired may be pointed but need not necessarily be so. Almost any design for the ends 10 and 11 may be used.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3, certain changes may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Figure 5 shows a modification of Figure 1. Figure 5 is a fragmentary section taken vertically through the bends 14 and 15 of Figure 1. In this case the shank 3 is provided with grooves 23 and 24 which are at the sides of the shank 3 extending up and down the shank parallel or substantially parallel to the plane of the hook section 5 so that the round portion of the bends 14 and 115 spring into these side grooves and lock the hook element 1 into the desired position. For this purpose the bends 14 and 15 may be provided with spring resilience to snap firmly in place.

Having now described my invention, I claim:

1. A drapery hook of the type described comprising two separable elements, the one formed of a wire having end stem portions extending in the same direction and joined to one another in a reversely bent loop having side sections which are continuations of said wire from said stern portions, the top end of said loop extending across the stems and spaced therefrom a distance less than the thickness of said second separable element, said second separable element comprising a hook with a shank, said shank adapted to engage said first element between said stems and between the stems and the top end of said loop when said shank is in operable position substantially parallel to said end stem portions, said shank having position fixing means engaged by said loop for fixing the position of the second separable element with respect to the first in substantial alignment with the stems thereof.

2. A drapery hook of the type described comprising two separable elements, the one comprising a spring resilient wire formed with two substantially parallel sections, each with a reverse bend inclined inwardly at its end toward said parallel sections, a cross joining section extending transverse to said parallel sections and connecting the ends of said reverse bends to one another forming a loop across the parallel sections and exerting tension toward the same, the other comprising a slidable hook element with a shank, the shank having a tension fit between said parallel sections and said loop and having transverse grooves selectively engaging said cross joining section.

3. A drapery hook of the type described, comprising two separable elements, the one comprising a spring resilient wire formed with two substantially parallel sections each with a reverse bend inclined inwardly at its end toward said parallel sections, a cross joining section extending transverse to said parallel sections and connecting the ends of said reverse bends to one another forming a loop with the loop tensioned toward the parallel sections and normally spaced therefrom less than the thickness of the other separable element, the other separable element comprising a slidable hook element with a shank, the shank having a tension fit between said sections, said shank having transverse grooves selectively engaging said cross joining section whereby said separable elements may be slideably adjusted with respect to one another.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 742,417 Hammerstrom Oct. 27, 1903 1,619,390 Wolf Mar. 1, 1927 2,015,149 Krzeminski Sept. 24, 1935 2,147,910 Martin Feb. 2, 1939 2,553,272 Perlmutter May 15, 1951 

